𝔸 philosophy teacher enters the classroom to give his senior class its final exam.
Placing a chair on his big mahogany desk, he says to the class, "Using everything you've learned in this class this year, prove to me that this chair doesn't exist".
And the students waste no time. Pencils are scribbling and pages are being turned. They seek and hope to find arguments to prove the inexistence of the chair.
Except for one student in the back row. He spends thirty seconds writing his answer, then hands his paper to the professor and sits back down. Time passes, and the students finally get their final grade.
There is shock all around, shock that the one who had written for thirty seconds gets the highest grade in the class. His answer to the question was, "What chair?"
Remember that in high school as well as in college [→ university], the first four years are described as follows: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
Placing a chair on his big mahogany desk, he says to the class, "Using everything you've learned in this class this year, prove to me that this chair doesn't exist".
And the students waste no time. Pencils are scribbling and pages are being turned. They seek and hope to find arguments to prove the inexistence of the chair.
Except for one student in the back row. He spends thirty seconds writing his answer, then hands his paper to the professor and sits back down. Time passes, and the students finally get their final grade.
There is shock all around, shock that the one who had written for thirty seconds gets the highest grade in the class. His answer to the question was, "What chair?"
Remember that in high school as well as in college [→ university], the first four years are described as follows: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
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